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• I Look Better In The Dark by rattdogg

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  22 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Murray Bauman
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Robin Buckley (mentioned)
  • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • First Kiss
  • Getting Together
  • Love Confessions
  • Fluff
  • so. much. fluff.
  • Developing Relationship
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
  • Tooth-Rotting Fluff
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Mike Wheeler is Whipped
  • Will Byers is a Sweetheart
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • and gets one yayy
  • Clingy Mike Wheeler
  • AAAAARGHGHGHGHH THEYRE JUST DORKS IN LOVEEE
  • Making Out
  • Neck Kissing
  • mentioned robin buckley
  • she's technically not in this fic but we love her anyway
  • just a soft read what can I say
  • Gay Panic
  • Flirty Will Byers
  • HOW IS THAT NOT A TAG HELLO???
  • tw homophobic slurs!!
  • Title from a TV Girl Song

  Summary

  “Will?”

  Will hums in acknowledgment, never letting his eyes leave the cabinet.

  “Did I do something wrong?”

  Will’s head snaps to Mike, their faces suddenly inches apart from each other. He can smell Mrs. Wheeler’s flowery laundry detergent on Mike’s shirt.

  “What?”

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